Financial Past Questions And Answers
The accounting entries used to record a cheque issued by a business is to?
- A. debit cash book and credit drawer
- B. credit cash book and debit drawer
- C. debit cash book and credit suspense account
- D. credit cash book and debit suspense account
N Bank account 59,410, Capital account 50,000, Purchase account 20,000, Rent 2,500, Stationery 90, typewriter 6,500, Sales 38,000 In preparing a trial from the list of balances given above, what is the total in debit and credit columns?
- A. N147,910
- B. N138,500
- C. N88,500
- D. N85,800
Use the information below to answer the question that follows,
A machine bought for N35,000 was estimated to have a life span of 5years with a scrap value of N9,000. The yearly depreciation using the straight line method would be?
- A. N5,200
- B. N6,500
- C. N8,800
- D. N4,400
Carriage inwards on raw materials is recorded in the
- A. balance sheet
- B. profit and loss account
- C. trading account
- D. manufacturing account
Given:
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Bank overdraft 2,000
Cash 2,000
Furniture 4,000
Derive the total amount on the credit side of the trial balance
- A. ₦4000
- B. ₦6000
- C. ₦2000
- D. ₦8000
Why will the capital of a business change?
- A) when wages are paid by cash
- B) when raw materials are purchased on credit
- C) non-current assets are purchased on credit
- D) when a supplier is paid by cheque
Departmentalization of accounts is useful because it shows the?
- A. overall performance of a firm
- B. price per unit of a product
- C. cost per unit of a product
- D. overall performance of a division
If liabilities amounted to N12,045, other assets N36,800and equity N26,896, the cash at hand would be?
- A. N2,241
- B. N2,214
- C. N2,141
- D. N2,114
Which of the following is charged to trading account?
- A. rent
- B. discount allowed
- C. carriage inwards
- D. carriage outwards
Money spent on buying of plots of land by a firm is
- A) Capital Expenditure
- B) Capital receipts
- C) Revenue Expenditure
- D) Revenue Receipts

